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Preface: A Personal Discovery of Food, Wine, and Sense of Terroir -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: A Context for California Cuisine -- Notes -- Chapter 2: The Early Californian Larder and the Gold Rush Food Revolution -- First Nation Foodways -- Developing American Food Traditions -- Early Spanish Alta California Prepares the Way for California Agribusiness -- Gold Rush and Statehood -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Climate, Land, Water, and Government Policies Establish California Agribusiness -- California Geography -- Climate -- California Agriculture -- American Plans for an Agribusiness Paradise in California -- Water Policies Favor Agribusiness -- Land Policies Favor Agribusiness -- Water and Land Policy Reform Attempts -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Ingredients for the First California Cuisine -- Beginnings of Industrial Food -- A Thirsty City -- Early Ethnic Influences -- Notes -- Chapter 5: The Early Wine Industry -- Establishing California Vintibusiness -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Agribusiness Reigns in California -- Twentieth-Century Agriculture: Boom and Bust -- Government Support -- Beginning of a New Food Production Era -- A California Model for Agriculture -- New Deal Agribusiness -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Laying the Foundation for California´s Industrial Food Model -- Self-Service Supermarkets and Chain Grocery Stores -- Growth of the California Food Corporation -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Redesigning the California Quest for Good Food in the Early Twentieth Century -- Bay Area High-End Food Choices -- Cooking Habits for Home Cooks -- Notes -- Chapter 9: California Fast Food Cuisine -- Governments Concentrate on Food Priorities -- California´s Final Shift to Agribusiness -- Government to the Rescue -- 1950-1970 Industrial Food Terroir -- Fast Food -- Notes -- Chapter 10: California Wine Rises to Stardom

CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Slow Living in the Global Everyday -- Slow living -- Everyday life -- Global culture -- Slow arts of the self -- 2. Slow Food -- Origins, philosophy and structure -- Projects -- Citt Slow -- New social movements and Slow Food -- 3. Time and Speed -- The temporalities of modernity -- An ethics of time -- Sloworld? -- 4. Space and Place -- Home and work -- Deterritorialization, the local and place -- Terroir and tradition -- Citt Slow -- 5. Food and Pleasure -- Pleasure -- Authenticity and taste -- The shared table -- 6. The Politics of Slow Living -- Visualizing global social movements -- The politics of eco-gastronomy -- Life politics -- Conclusion: Rage against the (bread) machine? -- Endnotes -- Appendix 1: Official Manifesto for the International Movement for the Defense of and the Right to Pleasure -- Bibliography -- Index.

This fascinating book examines the biology and culture of foods and beverages that are consumed in communal settings, with special attention to their health implications. Nina Etkin covers a wealth of topics, exploring human evolutionary history, the Slow Food movement, ritual and ceremonial foods, caffeinated beverages, spices, the street foods of Hawaii and northern Nigeria, and even bottled water. Her work is framed by a biocultural perspective that considers both the physiological implications of consumption and the cultural construction and circulation of foods.

Introduction: Slow food : gastronomic politics for the 21st century -- What is "slow food"? What are "slow cities"? -- What's so great about slow? -- Prometheus versus Noah : a new humanism for the twenty-first century -- Imagined communities, USA : crosses, flags, arches -- The rescuing ark : the art, the music, the place -- Conversations with snailblazers and the charge of elitism -- Conclusion: A new humanism : forging a revolution at a snail's pace.

Bringing together scholars from the areas of tourism, leisure and cultural studies, eco-humanities and tourism management, this book examines the emerging phenomenon of slow tourism. The book explores the range of travel experiences that are part of growing consumer concerns with quality leisure time, environmental and cultural sustainability, as well as the embodied experience of place. Slow tourism encapsulates a range of lifestyle practices, mobilities and ethics that are connected to social movements such as slow food and cities, as well as specialist sectors such as ecotourism and voluntourism. The slow experience of temporality can evoke and incite different ways of being and moving, as well as different logics of desire that value travel experiences as forms of knowledge. Slow travel practices reflect a range of ethical-political positions that have yet to be critically explored in the academic literature despite the growth of industry discourse

It is widely recognized that travel and tourism can have a high environmental impact and make a major contribution to climate change. It is therefore vital that ways to reduce these impacts are developed and implemented. 'Slow travel' provides such a concept, drawing on ideas from the 'slow food' movement with a concern for locality, ecology and quality of life.The aim of this book is to define slow travel and to discuss how some underlining values are likely to pervade new forms of sustainable development. It also aims to provide insights into the travel experience; these are explored in seve